Since I'm not eating because I've got a 10:45 appointment with Doc Dracula for 'fasting bloodwork' in which the results will probably be: I'm 'old, fat, and my cholesterol is crazy' (or maybe that's 'old, crazy, and have fat cholesterol...whatever), my mind is on body linguistics right now.
Why is it called 'fasting' when time seems to be slowing between meals? Why is it 'fasting' when you do it voluntarily and 'starving' when someone else does it to you? When I eat a Wawa pork roll and cheese croissant melt and some frothy coffee combination for lunch to celebrate 'not fasting', should that be called 'quickening', like the King James Version of being born again?
And on a different note...when you run over a nail with your car, you get a flat tire. If you step on a nail, should you get a flat foot?
When God provided Adam and Eve with 'skins' to cover their nakedness after the Fall, did Eve ask Adam if the outfit made her look fat? Could Adam even answer, since there was no standard for the phrase at the time?
Oh, and just how tall/big WERE Adam and Eve? The Bible talks about giants (Goliath was 9'9"), so were all the generations up to the Flood REALLY Big Folks? Think about it...Noah and his three sons built the Ark in 120 years with hand tools. If they were giants, that could explain some of the logistics of how they did it. Heck, that would make the rest of us Halflings and Frodo and Sam Quarterlings, now, wouldn't it?
The first seven generations mentioned in the Bible lived over 900 years (Lamech was a young 777 when he died), that dropped off to about 400 years after the flood for three generations, then to about 200 years for another three , and was down to 120 by the time Moses came around and 70-80 by the time Psalms was written. Maybe we started out with long life AND legs and have been going downhill ever since.
Hmmmm...Got 'shrimp'??
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